V-1 Flying Bomb (Completed)
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Andrea MorrisA great display piece and something I've fancied doing for a while now. Only 12 parts but it's a big bugger
Erik LeijdensVery nice subject Dave! always wondered how this kit will be. I live in a small town in the South-West of Holland were from the roof of a sugar factory V-1's were fired to Antwerp so I always had a thing with them!
Andrea MorrisMy great Granddad, was a goods train driver and used to tell us the story of him in his train at Kings Cross station when a V-1 landed just outside the station causing great damage and killing many people.
Andrea MorrisYes the scale is an odd choice, I think 1:24 would have been a better choice. It's 40cm long! Also there is no display stand provided?!?!?
Andrea MorrisGlued & clamped then black primer for the upper surface with white primer for the underneath.
@Alec I am tempted to build a dolly for this. Come pay day I might purchase some square brass rod.
Andrea MorrisSo, painted, decals added and a coat of varnish. I intend to scratch build a carriage for this so it can be displayed properly. Final reveal time...
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The V-1 missile or V-1 flying bomb (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1" )—also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb, or doodlebug, and in Germany as Kirschkern (cherrystone) or Maikäfer (maybug)—was an early cruise missile and the first production aircraft to use a pulse-jet for power.
The V-1 was developed at Peenemünde Army Research Centre by the Nazi German Luftwaffe during the Second World War. During initial development it was known by the codename "Cherry Stone". The first of the so-called "Vengeance weapons" (V-weapons or Vergeltungswaffen) series designed for terror bombing of London — because of its limited range, the thousands of V-1 missiles launched into England were fired from launch facilities along the French (Pas-de-Calais) and Dutch coasts. The first V-1 was launched at London on 13 June 1944, one week after (and prompted by) the successful Allied landings in Europe. At its peak, more than one hundred V-1s a day were fired at south-east England, 9,521 in total, decreasing in numb
